Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi’s Blood Shadow Squad turned the magical beast army attacking Muyuan City into a rout and killed a Beyond-Boundary Level Blood Demon Sect expert. After the survivors left for the imperial capital, Ling Yi, Mo Yanran, and Mo Yumeng arrived at Qingwu Military Academy.

• Blood Shadow Guo Ming and his clones charged into the magical beast army, while Ling Yi’s Blood Shadow Thorn Poison Vines and Bloodthirsty Hidden Mosquitoes attacked it from other directions.
• The defenders at Muyuan City saw the Blood Shadow Squad clearing the beasts, and the battle turned in the city’s favor.
• Ling Yi told the Thunder Demon Ape to capture the black-robed Blood Demon Sect expert alive, and the ape beat him to death without destroying his corpse.
• With their commander dead, the magical beasts fled; Ling Yi stored the spoils, then sent the Blood Shadow Squad to attack other beast territories.
• Situ Yun and the others traveled to Leimu City and teleported to the imperial capital, while Ling Yi, Mo Yanran, and Mo Yumeng reached Qingwu Military Academy.

Ling Yi learned that Boundary Soldiers kept the Heavenly Origin Continent as a pasture and that their Boundary Tokens could let him ascend. After arranging for Blood Shadows to act on his plans, he stayed at Qingwu Military Academy and prepared to hunt Boundary Soldiers.

• Ling Yi reviewed his Blood Shadow System, summoned Su Jian, and learned that killing a Boundary Soldier could yield a Boundary Token for ascending.
• Su Jian revealed that Boundary Soldiers devoured the Life Origin of human experts, and that five more beyond-boundary level humans would trigger their descent.
• Ling Yi sent Su Jian to take control of the Blood Demon Sect after Su Jian claimed he could easily kill a Boundary Soldier with his enhanced strength.
• Ling Kai and Zhao Yuanwei came to Ling Yi's dormitory about a room mix-up, but Ling Yi rejected their invitation and shut the door on them.
• Ling Yi summoned Guo Ming, heard about the new Demon Suppression Bureau and Great Emperor Qingyun's request to meet, then told Guo Ming to handle another task.

Ling Yi summoned fifty Beyond-Boundary Level Blood Shadows to draw out the realm soldiers, then killed the soldiers who arrived and learned about the upper realms. When the system began a twenty-four-hour update and ordered him to leave the world, Ling Yi ascended alone, leaving the Blood Shadows behind to guard the Heavenly Origin Continent.

• Blood Shadow Guo Ming broke into the Qingyun Imperial Capital prison, killed fifty prisoners, and took their bodies for Ling Yi to summon as Blood Shadows.
• Ling Yi summoned the fifty Beyond-Boundary Level Blood Shadows in the Cloud and Mist Mountain Range, drawing three realm soldiers through a black vortex passage.
• The system detected higher-tier energy and world laws, then began a twenty-four-hour update that temporarily disabled most functions and told Ling Yi to leave the world.
• Ling Yi killed two realm soldiers, questioned the remaining one about the upper realms, and then killed him and stored his intact body in System Space.
• Ling Yi ordered the Blood Shadows to protect the Heavenly Origin Continent and kill any realm soldiers who appeared, then ascended through the teleportation passage alone.
• Mo Yumeng felt her connection with Ling Yi snap, while Blood Shadow Guo Ming rejoiced as the Blood Shadows were freed from Ling Yi's control.

After arriving in the Nine Palaces Realm, Ling Yi awakened in an Ascension Pool and discovered that his Blood Shadow System had reset, leaving him unable to summon his former Blood Shadows. Two months later, he reached White Moon City with Zhuge Feiyu to enroll at Asgard Academy and gather spirit stones.

• Ling Yi absorbed the Ascension Pool's energy, then woke more than twenty hours later to a notification that his Blood Shadow System had reset and updated.
• Ling Yi examined his new system, found himself at the third layer of the Spirit God Realm, and realized he could not summon Blood Shadows from the Heavenly Origin Continent.
• Two months later, Ling Yi heard locals discussing the bandits on Emerald Peak Mountain and Asgard Academy's enrollment while drinking in White Moon City.
• Zhuge Feiyu delivered five thousand low-grade spirit stones to Ling Yi, who had wiped out the bandits to obtain them.
• Ling Yi and Zhuge Feiyu headed toward Asgard Academy on enrollment day.

Ling Yi passed Asgard School’s talent test and entered its rule-free secret-realm trial, where he upgraded his Blood Shadow System and rescued Bai Zhantang from a giant spider. He offered to help Bai Zhantang pass the assessment, then laughed upon hearing his name.

• Ling Yi slapped the arrogant fat man twice after he demanded a place in line and threatened him.
• Ling Yi passed the talent test, and fewer than two thousand applicants qualified to enter Asgard School.
• The chief examiner announced that applicants had to kill demonic beasts to pass, warned that any means were allowed, and explained how to use their assessment bracelets.
• Ling Yi entered the secret realm, upgraded the Blood Shadow System to level 6, and reached the first level of the Dharma Body Realm.
• Ling Yi killed a giant spider that was dragging Bai Zhantang toward its cave, then offered to help him pass the assessment.
• Bai Zhantang introduced himself, and Ling Yi laughed when he heard the name.

Ling Yi defeated and revived Liu Rui, a powerful Gu cultivator, then traveled with Liu Rui and Bai Zhantang through the assessment realm. They met Lin Xiaoxiao, a body cultivator carrying an enormous sword, and Ling Yi discovered the weapon’s power as she joined their group.

• Bai Zhantang completed his assessment with Ling Yi’s help, while Liu Rui pursued Ling Yi after vowing revenge.
• Ling Yi struck Liu Rui with lightning, then revived him as a Blood Shadow and learned about his Gu cultivation and thousands of insects.
• Ling Yi discovered that the Blood Shadow System had also brought Liu Rui’s Gu insects, and the three used them to earn assessment points on their way through ancient ruins.
• Liu Rui cooked a feast at the ruins, and Lin Xiaoxiao charged at their table with her giant sword before Ling Yi used his Spatial Domain to take it from her.
• Lin Xiaoxiao joined the group after eating, and Ling Yi swung her sword, discovering its formations drew in Spiritual Qi and let it release a crescent-shaped sword strike.

After entering Asgard Academy, Ling Yi learned how the Nine Palaces Realm’s advanced formation-pattern technology simplified cultivation and became curious about its secrets. He tested the system’s new Fuse All Things function and discovered that combining ordinary Qi Absorption Pills produced perfect-quality pills worth a fortune.

• Ling Yi and his companions finished the assessment trial among the top four, with Ling Yi first, Old Bai second, Liu Rui third, and Lin Xiaoxiao fourth, and joined Yunyao Branch Academy.
• At the Pattern Inscription Hall, a formation artist stamped Qi Gathering Formation Patterns onto Ling Yi and Old Bai, giving Ling Yi a seventh-grade pattern.
• Ling Yi attended academy courses and learned about formation-pattern grades, glyphs, and the restricted technology controlled by the nine great Asgards.
• Ling Yi returned to White Moon City, collected supplies from Zhuge Feiyu, and activated the system’s Fuse All Things function.
• Ling Yi fused two Qi Absorption Pills into a perfect-quality pill, and Zhuge Feiyu estimated it was worth at least a thousand low-grade spirit stones.

Ling Yi fused pills and other items to amass spirit stones, then learned that a Spirit Platform Realm expert had stolen goods from one of Zhuge Feiyu’s clones. He identified Cheng Yuan as the likely culprit and entered a month-long herb-garden secret realm combat class, where he brushed off Bai Wujiang’s demand to coordinate before fighting.

• Ling Yi tested his fusion function, sold upgraded goods through Zhuge Feiyu, and earned a billion low-grade spirit stones in a week.
• One of Zhuge Feiyu’s clones reported that a Spirit Platform Realm expert with a spatial divine ability had killed it and stolen its pills, so Ling Yi suspected someone from Asgard Academy.
• Lin Xiaoxiao identified Cheng Yuan as the only Spirit Platform Realm expert with a spatial divine ability and as the teacher leading the next day’s combat class.
• Cheng Yuan led nearly eighty new students through a portal into an herb-garden secret realm and assigned them to defend the gardens and kill demonic beasts for contribution points.
• Ling Yi led Old Bai, Liu Rui, and Lin Xiaoxiao out to fight, but Bai Wujiang, the city lord’s son, challenged him over sharing the contribution points.
• Ling Yi returned to the manor courtyard instead of confronting Bai Wujiang, and Liu Rui began preparing barbecue while Bai Wujiang seethed.

Ling Yi upgraded his Blood Shadow System and discovered how its Blood Shadow Realm and unrestricted Coordinate Sharing could help him strengthen his foundation and travel between worlds. After Liu Rui punished Bai Wujiang for attacking their meal, Ling Yi sent Blood Shadows to steal spirit stones, and the robberies escalated from White Moon City’s families to Asgard Academy.

• Ling Yi spent nearly eight hundred million low-grade spirit stones upgrading his system to level 23, gaining the Blood Shadow Realm and removing world-boundary restrictions on Blood Shadow travel and Coordinate Sharing.
• Ling Yi realized that his Blood Shadows could cultivate for him and that he could reach new worlds by following their ascensions, even though he could not sense the force of ascension himself.
• Ling Yi summoned his Blood Shadows, sent them to steal spirit stones from Zhuge Feiyu’s location, and ordered them to ascend afterward.
• Bai Wujiang kicked over Ling Yi’s hot pot table and demanded an explanation, so Liu Rui used his Gu insects to badly injure him.
• Ling Yi’s group stayed in the manor while Bai Wujiang and the others returned to hunting demonic beasts for contribution points.
• Ling Yi’s Blood Shadows robbed White Moon City’s treasuries and more than a dozen families, then stripped Asgard Academy’s treasury, alarming its people.

Ling Yi changed his plan to bring the Nine Palaces Realm under Blood Shadow by ordering Zhuge Feiyu to kill Asgard lords and faction leaders for conversion. After returning to Asgard Academy, Ling Yi heard that its treasury and spirit stone vein had been plundered, while Lin Xiaoxiao arrived with a message that her mother wanted to meet him.

• Ling Yi spoke with Mo Yumeng in the Blood Shadow Realm, explained that another middle world planned to invade through the Heavenly Origin Continent, and sent her back to help gather spirit stones.
• Ling Yi ordered Cheng Yuan to pass information about the Asgards to Zhuge Feiyu, then named the transformed Thorn Poison Vine Qing Ji and told the other beasts to choose names.
• Ling Yi told Zhuge Feiyu to kill Asgard lords and major faction heads while preserving their bodies so he could summon them as Blood Shadows.
• After returning to Asgard Academy, Ling Yi saw Liu Rui's golden gu insects kill Bai Wujiang, while Liu Rui sent more insects to warn City Lord Bai.
• Old Bai told Ling Yi that Asgard Academy would be locked down after its treasury and White Moon City's spirit stone vein were plundered, but Ling Yi urged him to focus on cultivation.
• Lin Xiaoxiao came to Ling Yi's dormitory and said that her mother wanted to meet him.

Ling Yi revealed overwhelming strength when Lin Yun tested him, then learned that Lin Xiaoxiao's fiancé, Xu Nuo, was coming to White Moon City. Lin Yun wanted Ling Yi to defeat Xu Nuo, but Ling Yi instead proposed having him killed.

• Lin Yun questioned Ling Yi about his origins and strength, then brought him and Lin Xiaoxiao to a barren world for a fight.
• Ling Yi overwhelmed Lin Yun with eighteen powerful clones and thunder Dharma Bodies, then secretly turned her into Blood Shadow while leaving her unharmed.
• Lin Yun told Ling Yi that Xu Nuo, the son of Penglai Asgard's master and Lin Xiaoxiao's fiancé, would arrive in two days.
• Lin Yun explained that she wanted Ling Yi to defeat Xu Nuo so he could no longer claim Lin Xiaoxiao, but Ling Yi rejected the plan and offered to have Xu Nuo killed.
• Lin Yun worried about the consequences of killing Xu Nuo, but Ling Yi pointed out that the people who looted the secret realm treasury could plausibly be blamed.

Ling Yi strengthened Guo Ming through bloodline advancement while keeping his Blood Shadows from ascending. Meanwhile, Lin Yun killed Xu Nuo and framed the Sixth Demon Realm, leaving the question of whether it planned to invade the Nine Palaces Realm.

• Ling Yi drank with the bruised and ostracized Old Bai, then left perfect-grade Qi Absorption Pills at his bedside.
• Ling Yi advanced Guo Ming's bloodline to god grade, greatly improving their strength, aptitude, comprehension, and affinity with Spiritual Qi.
• Xu Nuo traveled toward White Moon City with his second uncle, planning to take Lin Xiaoxiao back to Penglai Asgard as his bride.
• A mysterious figure seized Xu Nuo and demanded ten billion mid-grade spirit stones from Penglai Asgard, claiming to represent the Sixth Demon Realm.
• Lin Yun revealed herself as Xu Nuo's captor, killed him, and wondered whether the Sixth Demon Realm was planning to invade the Nine Palaces Realm.

Ling Yi advanced his Spatial Domain into the Law of Space, clarified his long-term cultivation path, and left Asgard Academy to travel north. After a month on the road, he reached Qiyun City, where soldiers attacked him and an armored man mistook him for someone named Ye Yu.

• Ling Yi spent one billion low-grade spirit stones to advance his Spatial Domain into the Law of Space and learned that laws could only become his own at the level of Dao.
• Ling Yi decided to leave Asgard Academy, rejected Lin Weiwei's offer to come with him, and departed White Moon City alone.
• Ling Yi traveled north as an ordinary wanderer while Blood Shadow Guo Ming killed Penglai Asgard's palace master Xu Potian, whom Ling Yi ordered to study time-related cultivation methods.
• Ling Yi studied formation patterns during his travels, then gave up and assigned the work to his Blood Shadows.
• Ling Yi arrived at Qiyun City, where soldiers fired arrows at him and an armored man called him Ye Yu.

Ling Yi watched Ye Yu use his time domain to kill the guards and retainers who stood between him and Nangong Zhong. Ye Yu found Yun'er dead, captured Nangong Zhong, and dragged him away, while Ling Yi wondered whether Ye Yu was the protagonist.

• Ye Yu arrived at Qiyun City and demanded that Zhuang Zhuo release Yun'er, while Ling Yi moved aside to watch.
• Ye Yu used his time domain to freeze the attacks, kill Zhuang Zhuo and the city guards, and press deeper into Qiyun City.
• Ye Yu reached the manor and found Yun'er dead in her wedding gown, then stored her corpse and confronted Nangong Zhong.
• Ye Yu used his time domain to regress Nangong Zhong into a child and sealed his Spiritual Power with a thorny vine.
• Ye Yu dragged Nangong Zhong out of the manor as Ling Yi observed his abilities and wondered whether he was the protagonist.

Ye Yu killed Nangong Zhong, but Nangong Zhong’s Soul Mark drew a Tribulation Transcendence powerhouse after him. Ling Yi killed the two men, turned them into Blood Shadows, gained Ye Yu’s time domain, and continued traveling north until he came upon a massive battle.

• Ye Yu used his plundered Divine Ability to kill Nangong Zhong, whose Soul Mark alerted his father, Nangong Xiangbei.
• Nangong Xiangbei caught Ye Yu and offered him freedom in exchange for ten years of service, but Ling Yi appeared and crushed both men with spatial power.
• Ling Yi revived the men as Blood Shadows, ordering Nangong Xiangbei to gather resources and Ye Yu to devour all thirty-six Divine Abilities.
• Ling Yi used Ye Yu’s shared time domain to advance it into a law, then continued north while accumulating resources and studying time and space laws.
• Three months later, Ling Yi found tens of thousands of cultivators fighting and asked an old man hiding in the grass what was happening.
• The old man pulled Ling Yi down and asked which side he belonged to, demanding to know where his red or blue shoulder badge was.

Ling Yi met Zhuge Wuchen in the Domain of Chaos, learned about the political struggle behind a staged battle, and revealed that the Heavenly Origin Continent had survived the Sixth Demon Realm’s invasion. Zhuge Wuchen proposed turning Ling Yi’s Boundary Token-making ability into a Myriad Worlds Chamber of Commerce, and Ling Yi recognized the scheme’s potential.

• Ling Yi filmed a staged battle over a grade-three spirit stone vein while Zhuge Wuchen explained that the three Asgards used proxy factions to compete without directly intervening.
• Zhuge Wuchen revealed that he had ascended from the Heavenly Origin Continent and shared stories of two technologically advanced ascenders who had angered the Asgards.
• Ling Yi told Zhuge Wuchen that the Sixth Demon Realm had invaded the Heavenly Origin Continent, then reassured him that he had stationed people there to protect it.
• Ling Yi showed Zhuge Wuchen more than twenty Boundary Tokens and said he could make as many as he wanted, prompting Zhuge Wuchen to propose a Myriad Worlds Chamber of Commerce.
• Ling Yi saw the potential in Zhuge Wuchen’s proposal and considered using Blood Shadows and System Space to connect worlds.

Ling Yi upgraded the Blood Shadow System to level 25, unlocking Blood Shadow summoning permissions, shared System Space access, and a Chat Channel. The Blood Shadows’ messages revealed that Weiwei was traveling with Liu Rui and had become embroiled in a fight with Penglai Asgard, while Ye Yu pursued Jade Asgard’s palace master.

• Zhuge Wuchen outlined his plan to expand the Myriad Worlds Chamber of Commerce across the Domain of Chaos and other realms, then decided to return to the Heavenly Origin Continent for merchandise.
• Ling Yi spent nearly four billion low-grade spirit stones upgrading the system from level 23 to level 25.
• Ling Yi learned that Blood Shadows could now summon targets with permission, access System Space, and communicate through a shared Chat Channel.
• Lin Yun reported that Weiwei had gone looking for Ling Yi with Old Bai and Liu Rui, and Liu Rui said Weiwei had crippled the son of a Penglai Asgard domain lord.
• Ye Yu said he was hunting Jade Asgard’s palace master Nangong Qiong, and Ling Yi granted him permission to summon Nangong Qiong as a Blood Shadow.
• Xu Potian offered to resolve Liu Rui’s fight with Penglai Asgard, explaining that entering the Blood Shadow Realm had reset the time until his ascension.

Ling Yi organized the Blood Shadows into departments and set a spirit-stone target before resuming his journey north. Near the Frozen Domain, he killed attackers who tried to silence him and met Yin Chen, a dying mechanical life-form whose origins aroused his curiosity.

• Ling Yi assigned Guo Ming and Zhuge Feiyu to combat, Mo Yumeng to records, Zhuge Wuchen to commerce, and Ye Yu to plundering Divine Abilities, setting a target of one hundred quadrillion low-grade spirit stones before ascension.
• Ling Yi tasked Zhuge Wuchen with negotiating payments from the Sixth Demon Realm without allowing its forces passage.
• Ling Yi allowed Ye Yu's resurrected sister, Ye Yun'er, to become the sixty-fifth Blood Shadow, granting all Blood Shadows her Misfortune Divine Ability.
• Ling Yi traveled north for half a year, witnessed a duel between a sword cultivator and a body cultivator, and approached the Frozen Domain.
• Bosita ordered his men to kill Ling Yi for witnessing their attack on Yin Chen, and Ling Yi killed Bosita's men after they attacked him.
• Ling Yi returned to the dying Yin Chen out of curiosity about summoning him, learned that Zhuge Wuchen had once saved him and that he had ascended through technology, and raised his fist after listening to his prolonged account.

Ling Yi summoned Blood Shadow Yin Chen and learned that his quantum divine body granted him the dangerous ability of Quantum Deduction. He then reached the strange Undying City, where a little girl offered him shelter and warned him away from a green tree; Yin Chen arrived to investigate the city.

• Ling Yi discovered Yin Chen's Quantum Deduction could divine the past, future, rules, and Dao, but would gradually erase his humanity through absolute rationality.
• Yin Chen accepted Ling Yi's orders to comprehend the Dao for him and left to pursue that task.
• Ling Yi traveled north and found Undying City, an unusually large settlement of ordinary people with no guards, shops, or inns.
• A little girl offered Ling Yi a room and warned him that approaching the enormous green tree would kill even a Tribulation Transcendence Realm cultivator.
• Ling Yi summoned Yin Chen to investigate Undying City, and Yin Chen sensed that something was wrong.

Ling Yi learned that the people of Undying City were trapped in cycles of death and rebirth because of the Undying Tree, while cultivators who approached it died. After Yin Chen identified the tree as a sentient Reincarnation Divine Tree, Ling Yi had it taken for the Blood Shadow Realm and offered Undying City compensation.

• Ling Yi met Lady Li, Li Yunhu, and Li Yueting, and learned that Undying City’s ordinary residents repeatedly died and were reborn while remaining trapped inside the city.
• Lady Li explained that a seed had fallen into Snow City about four thousand years earlier and grown into the Undying Tree, which killed cultivators who approached it.
• Ling Yi used solar-powered lights to brighten Lady Li’s courtyard, drawing curious but subdued residents outside.
• Yin Chen identified the Undying Tree as a sentient Reincarnation Divine Tree whose power of samsara had caused the city’s strange condition.
• Ling Yi offered Undying City three conditions as compensation and promised to arrange Qi Gathering Formation Patterns, then sent Yin Chen to take the tree; a green light flashed as Yin Chen succeeded.